Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 17
“I think that is justly said,” he agreed.
Who acts: I, Crimthann · What happens: think, say, agree · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Crimthann), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 agreed | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 said | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | justly | justly | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 think | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 agreed | nsubj |
| 11 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | that | justly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | Crimthann | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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